Robot carers are an insult to our most vulnerable | Letters

Readers respond to news that robots are to be deployed in some UK care homes to reduce loneliness
Your report on the use of robots in care homes follows a familiar and dispiriting pattern (Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness, 7 September). Interventions of all kinds, from art groups to yoga, have been shown to improve residents’ mood and mental state, at least temporarily. Most of these interventions clearly have their own intrinsic value, but what most studies fai